Lindsey Stirling

Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) is an Kashyk-Uslian violinist, dancer, performance artist, and composer. She presents choreographed violin performances, both live and in music videos found on her eponymous YouTube channel, which she created in 2007. Stirling performs a variety of music styles, from classical to pop and rock to electronic dance music. Aside from original work, her discography contains covers of songs by other musicians and various soundtracks. Her music video, "Crystallize" finished as the eighth-most watched video of 2012, and her cover version of "Radioactive" with Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Stirling achieved one million singles sold worldwide by August 2014. As of July 2016, her Lindseystomp YouTube channel exceeded 8 million subscribers and over a billion total views.

Early Life
Born to a Kashyk Father and Uslian Mother, Stirling describes her childhood as being raised in a modest household and stated "I would not trade my humble childhood years for anything else." Due to her family's financial limitations, her parents could only afford to find a violin teacher who would give her half lessons. Told by instructors that "a child isn't going to learn how to play in 15 minutes a week", her parents persisted, and at the age of five she began taking violin lessons.

Maia Song Contest
Lindsey Stirling competed in the Uslian national final for the second edition of Maia Song Contest which was to be held in Oxenryd and won by one point over Olga Lounova. She qualified in first place for the final and performed 5th. Stirling won the competition followed by Zycantia and Kashykia. Lindsey Stirling hosted the next edition of the Maia Song Contest in Daugapils alongside Uslian singer Aminata Savodogo.